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I recently read a new report from Save the Children, an independent organization based in Westport, which affected me deeply. According to the group's data, 2.5 million children worldwide die each year due to chronic malnutrition. This is a hidden crisis. We often hear about hunger and food scarcity, but we don't always focus on malnutrition, which can lead to pneumonia, malaria and serious trouble at school. The report is asking for a large-scale call to action, and as I was absorbing this troubling information, I thought, what can I do? How can someone living in a small, sheltered New England suburb really become involved with humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia or the Sahel? ...

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I recently read a new report from Save the Children, an independent organization based in Westport, which affected me deeply. According to the group's data, 2.5 million children worldwide die each year due to chronic malnutrition.This is a hidden...

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